2. The above documents
were backed up by
the British Library in case Microsoft ever stops publishing
them
(announcement).

3. Microsoft
is funding
the development of a translator between the old
binary file formats and OOXML which should assist
folks that have experience in one format and want to
understand the other, or just want to convert
documents back and forth. If your app lacked support
for OOXML, but had support for the old formats, you
can use these tools.

Last year we sponsored a translator project that gave people
the ability to read and write ODF files from Microsoft
Office. Last month we announced that we would update the
Office product so that the ODF translators could natively plug
into Office and give people the same options they get from the
other file formats. People will be able to set ODF as the
default format in Office if that's what they want by simply
installing the translators and then changing their settings.

8. Lots of clarifications went into the spec, and people
should be happy about that.